“ They were what we volunteerd, incidents the mind barely recalls. Let me then recite the seasons as I would recite the passing of anarchists and great kings.” - Robert Duncan, Ground WorkWell, it's simply a great piece of writing. What more can be added? Our lives are seasons, are filled with anarchists and kings, and those with memory, or bemoaning the loss of memory, recite them.

"The known interprets the obscure, the universe is alive with myth." - Ernest Fenollosa

We can spend an evening on our suburban decks, and look at the surrounding city life, on the verge of sleep, and think that is all there is. Just sterility, the movements on the surface, nothing more than what we see. But if we see, really see, we might find what is below the surface, and connect it to what has happened always. Prayers made with fetishes in a hut, or in a bed under covers; sharpening of hunting knives or a pencil for an accountant's ledger; a raid on a neighboring clan, or an invective on some political website. And if we look closely enough, might we not imagine the demons and spirits that hovered over the daily life of our ancestors? It is part of a theme offered up here with Singers, Souls, Silence and also on my Scribd collection, with The Lighted Window.

"The known interprets the obscure, the universe is alive with myth.” - Ernest FenolosaA friend let me borrow a wonderful picture of her from eastern Europe. It has in it qualities which I struggled for months to find the write words to accompany it. Magic, innocence, a sense of foreboding, even. They are all in it. She looks at once trapped, but dreaming of a future in which the young man...a wooden gnome of sorts, next to her...seems happy to help her dream.Something real, something obscure, something small, but the stuff of poetry, of being alive, of pulling forward into today vague myths of yesterday.Read it on my poetry page. I hope you enjoy it!

“Most verse is something being made to communicate what is already present in the mind.” - Robert Duncan. “The process of poetry...is to reveal the potential of what is 'present in the mind' so that writer and reader come to know what it is they know, explore it and realize, real-ize it.” - Denise LevertovSimply put...write what you know, but more elegantly stated. The fruition of which, of followed, is that we know more, more about the world, our selves, and the relationships. The simple things that make up the real world, and the simple responses that are overlooked by others, are the things we know. Observe, participate, know, stew, write. Re-write and realize.By doing this, the poet can become an unwitting explorer, which, if others are able to follow the journey, might also learn along with the poet. For sometimes the things we know are deep in the mind, buried, our histories and myths forgotten, disconnected. We can, however, find them and reconnect.

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I have been writing for a long time...but recently became serious about it due to Scribd, where I have over 1,200 followers and over 170,000 readings of over 100 pieces. Links to some of those on the relevant pages on this site.